About

NOW Society

since circa 1987
Fostering community by advancing the ideas, values and practice of creative improvisational music through performance, composition, collaboration, engagement, mentoring and publication. The artistic mission of the New Orchestra Workshop (NOW) Society is to create, develop and provide a focus for original music that fuses improvisation and composition, the predetermined with the undefined. Events planned and unplanned are linked, craft and skill navigates the endless possibilities of the unkown. We are committed to providing opportunities for musicians to gain musical experience and exposure to an improvisational community of creative artists and audiences. By producing concerts and recordings, the NOW Society engages in adventurous creativity that offers composers and improvisers a context in which to develop new work and to explore their craft. Audiences experience local, domestic and international artists who are making a lasting contribution to improvisational music. The community is encouaraged to parcticipate in workshops to explore improvised music and its relationship to other disciplines such as dance, theatre, spoken word, video and film. Under the umbrella of the Ne... more...
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Community Events

Last Lineup

Clyde Reed
bass
Coat Cooke
reeds/flute
JP Carter
trumpet
Stefan Smulovitz
electronics/viola
Skye Brooks
drums
Chris Gestrin
keyboards/piano
D.B. Boyko
voice
Patrick Pennefather
Keyboards/piano

Past Members

Saul Berson
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